Some Brief Notes from other Sources

Australian Aboriginal Healing

Source: Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan. New York: Harper Perennial, 1991. Note that this book is marketed as fiction, but the author claims it to be based on real experience with an Aboriginal tribe that has had virtually no contact with European/Western influence.

Description of Healing a Compound Fracture: “Medicine Man was moving his hands up and down the wounded leg about one inch away from the surface in a gentle, gliding motion: first parallel, and then one moving from top to bottom while the other hand moved from bottom to the top… I was told… [this] was a way of reconnecting the former pattern of the healthy leg… jogging the memory of the bone into acknowledging the true nature of its healthy state… they all began to speak in prayer like fashion. Medicine Man put both hands around the ankle. He did not appear actually to touch or pull the foot. Female Healer acted in the same capacity around the knee… the bone just slipped back into the hole from which it had exited.” The next day the patient was walking on the leg without a limp. Five days later, there was only a thin scar to indicate the injury had ever happened. (Morgan, 90-92) “The two native physicians worked by sending thoughts of perfection to the body. There was as much going on in the heads and hearts as in their hands.” (Morgan, 95)

Aboriginal Theory of Illness: “Your body is whole, well, and healthy on a cellular level, and then in an instant, the first derangement or abnormality happens in a part of some one cell. It may take months or years for the symptoms or diagnosis to be recognized. And healing is the reverse process… you receive some sort of treatment. In an instant the body stops going downhill and begins the first steps of repair.” (Morgan, 95-96)

Quantum Consciousness and Energetic Balancing

Source: Sanctuary: The Path to Consciousness by Stephen Lewis and Evan Slawson. Santa Monica: HTTPress, 1998. Again, this book is marketed as a fictional novel, but claims to represent factual occurrences. Note: I did not include this system in the list of techniques above because assessment and treatment are done with the use of electronic probes and computer programs rather than a laying on of hands. However, some of the theory of illness and energy was of interest within the scope of this project, so I include that here.

Frequency imbalances: The computer locates “energetic imbalances, subtle energy frequencies which have traditionally been associated with disease, but are not in themselves evidence of disease…. you have the energetic potential for cancer… [if that frequency is removed] it will be difficult for your body to support the energy specific to manifesting an active physical cancer… homeopaths call hereditary energetic potentials miasms. The frequency which indicated your back pain is different. It isn’t a miasm. It’s an energetic imbalance which, energetically speaking, has become active. By application of the correct balancing frequency to counter the active imbalance, the imbalance disappears. Technically, of course, since I don’t diagnose or treat disease, if your back pain goes away, you should consider it a coincidence.” (Lewis, 30-31)

Balancing: “The work I do brings your inner subtle-energy forces into balance so that your own self-organizing principle brings your body, your mind, your emotions, and even your spiritual self back into a state of well-being… Not everybody can benefit from this. Because you yourself are the motivating force of this work, you must have enough energy, enough personal power, to bring yourself back to an optimum state after your energies have been brought into balance.” (Lewis, 62)

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